NEW MODELS OF CARE IN FAMILY MEDICINE

Family medicine hospital care.

The complexity of family medicine care.

In this issue, Katerndahl et al quantify the complexity of family physician care compared with cardiology and psychiatry. When accounting for the length of the encounter, the complexity in family medicine is one-third higher than cardiology and 5 times higher than psychiatry. The measured complexity of family medicine is highly relevant, yet it remains unacknowledged, as evidenced by the reimbu...

Curative Care Utilization under Family Medicine and Rural Insurance in Amol – Iran

Background and purpose: Reliable information about utilization of medical services is key for making appropriate decisions of all healthcare systems. Nonetheless, most policy decisions and planning in the rural areas of developing countries are made with the lack of such crucial information. In this article we attempt to reveal the pattern of curative care utilization of rural population in Amo...

Structural Quality and Utilization of Outpatient Curative Care Under Family Medicine Scheme in Rural Area of Mazandaran– Iran

Background & purpose: Since 2005, a reform known as Rural Insurance and Family Medicine Scheme has introduced to primary health care network in Iran in rural areas and small towns. The content of the reform implies a substantial change in those aspects of health centers that mainly could be categorized as structural quality. Although, this is the requirement of all health care providers, they a...

Equity of Access to Quality of Care in Family Medicine

Accessibility is an important characteristic of primary health care contributing in large part to its success in making health care more efficient and equitable. Countries which have comprehensive primary health care systems have lower costs and generally healthier populations [1, 2]. To get the benefits of PHC services, people need to be able to access and use them. Access to primary health ca...